# The Best Golf Courses in St. George

Source: https://thecourserankings.com/blog/the-best-golf-courses-in-st-george-ut/

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A deep sand bunker guarding a green. Photo: Santeri Viinamäki, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The back nine at Sand Hollow runs along a cliff edge, red rock dropping away, and in the space of about ten years it changed what Utah golf means to the rest of the country. St. George was a retirement town with nice winter weather and a 1965 muni. Then the photographs got out.

This is desert golf at its most theatrical, and the ranking has to sort theatre from substance across five courses: the resort headliner, a private club in Snow Canyon's shadow, and the town's own courses going back to Red Hills in 1965, St. George's first. We score the golf first, then the day, then access and value. The cliff-edge course wins, but the order below it is where the local arguments live.

## 1Sand Hollow Resort Championship Course

Sand Hollow's back nine on the cliff edge made red-rock Utah a national trip, and unlike most famous stretches it earns the fame on the ground. The holes along the rim are not a photo opportunity with golf attached; the cliff is in play, the wind off the desert is in play, and the shots ask real questions at the exact moment you would rather be looking at the view. The front side, linksy and rolling through the dunes, is better than its reputation as the warm-up act.

The concession: it is resort golf at resort prices, in a desert where summer rounds are an endurance event. Neither fact dents the ranking. This is the best course in southern Utah's biggest golf town, and the distance to second place is the largest on any list in this region.

## 2Entrada at Snow Canyon Country Club

Entrada is the private answer, golf in the lava fields and red rock below Snow Canyon, in a setting that rivals the leader's and beats it for quiet. Members here play one of the most dramatic sites in American desert golf without a resort tee sheet full of bachelor parties, and the course uses its black rock and canyon walls as hazards with genuine menace.

It finishes second because Sand Hollow's championship test is sterner and its best holes are better. On setting alone, some days, Entrada argues for first. Private access settles the practical question for visitors anyway: you will play Sand Hollow. Entrada is the one you will hear about at dinner.

## 3The Ledges Golf Club

The Ledges takes third, elevated golf above the valley with views across to the same red rock country, a step down in drama from the top two and a step up in playability. For the visiting group that found Sand Hollow's cliff holes thrilling and terrifying in equal measure, The Ledges is often the round they replay in their heads on the flight home: scenic Utah golf that lets you swing.

Third in St. George is a strong finish nationally. The town's bench is that deep now.

## 4Sunbrook Golf Club

Sunbrook is the town's own workhorse, 27 holes of municipal golf in three nines draped over the desert washes, the round St. George residents actually play while the resorts take the visitors. Its best holes use the terrain honestly, and as a value proposition in a town of resort prices it is close to unbeatable.

It ranks fourth on the quality of the test, not on merit as a civic asset. Every destination town needs a Sunbrook. Few have one this good.

## 5Dixie Red Hills Golf Course

Red Hills, from 1965, was St. George's first course, and it closes this list the way it started the town's golf: nine holes among the red rocks, short, walkable, and loved without embarrassment by generations of local golfers. It is not a championship test and never claimed to be.

Fifth place, and the most affection per hole on the page. Before the cliffs and the lava fields and the national photographs, there was this little course in the red hills, proving golf belonged in the desert. Everything above it on this list is built on that proof.

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